Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp, coaches apparently realized that they had made a mistake. In addition, the Canadian goalie in Roy's place at the camp was hampered with a groin injury. The coaches began hinting to Roy that he might be asked to travel to Finland anyway...
...other hand, Roy was not even invited to the camp. After Canadian coaches had led him to believe that he would be invited to the tryout, Roy's name was omitted from the list of invitees, shocking both him and Sneddon...
However, the coaches had not given Roy a phone call as of yesterday evening, meaning that the Crimson netminder would probably not make the trip. The Canadian team left for Finland yesterday...
...Lepine's pocket, police found a three-page suicide note, in which police said he complained that "feminists have always ruined his life." Born to a French-Canadian mother and an Algerian father who left the family when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military...
Most of all, it requires international cooperation on an unprecedented scale. No nation can cordon itself off from the effects of its neighbors' pollution. Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl swept across most of the European continent. Canadian lakes are being poisoned by the belchings of U.S. smokestacks. The torching of Brazil's tropical forests each year accounts for some 6% of all the CO2 that is pumped into the atmosphere. Deforestation in Haiti and drought in Africa have prompted large cross-border refugee movements -- just a foretaste, perhaps, of the mass migrations that could result if runaway population growth outstrips world...